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Biographical note
Erica Tortolani recently completed a Ph.D. in Communication with a concentration in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Together with Martin F. Norden, she has published the edited volume ReFocus: The Films of Paul Leni (Edinburgh University Press), which debuted in March 2021. Her work has also appeared in Interdisciplinary Humanities journal, the Journal of Historical Fictions, In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, and the edited volume Bloody Women!.
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